BILL NUMBER: ACR 180	CHAPTERED  09/18/00

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   147
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 18, 2000
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   AUGUST 31, 2000
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 29, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cardoza

                        AUGUST 10, 2000

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 180--Relative to the CHP
Officers Walter Frago and Roger Gore, Memorial Freeway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 180, Cardoza.  CHP Officers Walter Frago and Roger Gore,
Memorial Freeway.
   This measure would designate a prescribed section of State Highway
Route 99 as the "CHP Officer Walter Frago and Roger Gore Memorial
Freeway." The measure would request the Department of Transportation
to determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers designating
that specified section of State Highway Route 99 and, upon receiving
donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect
appropriate plaques and markers.




   WHEREAS, On April 5, 1970, four California Highway Patrol Officers
were murdered in one of the worst uniformed police officer killing
incidents in American history; and
   WHEREAS, Officers George Aleyn, Walter Frago, James Pence Jr., and
Roger Gore were gunned down just off of Interstate 5; and
   WHEREAS, Two of those officers, Walter Frago and Roger Gore were
from Merced County, Officer Frago having grown up in Merced, while
Roger Gore resided in Snelling; and
   WHEREAS, The officers were on the lookout for a suspect who had
been reportedly seen brandishing a weapon; and
   WHEREAS, Officer's Frago and Gore were the first on the scene,
pulling over a vehicle with two men, when a gun fight ensued leaving
both of these fine officers dead at the age of 23 years; and
   WHEREAS, This tragic incident continues to live in the memory of
the law enforcement community, local residents of Merced County, and
citizens throughout the state; and
   WHEREAS, It is appropriate that the sacrifice of these two young
men be remembered on a highway memorializing their dedication to
duty; and
   WHEREAS, It is also fitting that the section of highway designated
in their memory consist of a section of State Highway Route 99
between Mission Avenue and the new Campus Parkway in Merced County
leading to the University of California, Merced, thereby making the
promise and dedication of these two fine young officers a symbol to
the youth of the new university campus that honor and responsibility
are to be taken seriously; and
   WHEREAS, This portion of the highway can become a link between the
sacrifice of the past which has created the present, and the efforts
of all our citizens to forge the future; and
   WHEREAS, This memorial highway will continue to remind all of us
of the sacrifice all California Highway Patrol officers and other
peace officers who continue to perform on a daily basis without
regard for personal safety; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby dedicates the section
of State Highway Route 99, between Mission Avenue and the new Campus
Parkway in Merced County, to the memories of California Highway
Patrol Officers Walter Frago and Roger Gore; and be it further
   Resolved, That that portion of State Highway Route 99 be
officially designated the "CHP Officers Walter Frago and Roger Gore,
Memorial Freeway"; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers, consistent
with the signing requirements for the state highway system, showing
this special designation, and upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources sufficient to cover that cost, to erect those plaques and
markers; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Department of Transportation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.
